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What is accessible web design? Why bother with accessible web design? Legal reasons

Usability. Multimedia Authoring. What is accessible web design? Why bother with accessible web design? Legal reasons Benefits to people without disabilities How is the Web accessed by people with disabilities?. Usability. Accessibility. Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver

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What is accessible web design? Why bother with accessible web design? Legal reasons

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  1. Usability Multimedia Authoring • What is accessible web design? • Why bother with accessible web design? • Legal reasons • Benefits to people without disabilities • How is the Web accessed by people with disabilities? Multimedia Authoring

  2. Usability Accessibility • Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver Images • Use standard image formats • Provide height and width attributes for all images • Many images? Use thumbnails • Alternate Text Description (alt attribute) • Long Description (longdesc attribute) • Client side image maps Multimedia Authoring

  3. Usability Accessibility • Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver Tables • table caption & summary attribute • Table headers Multimedia Authoring

  4. Usability Accessibility • Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver Hyperlinks Headers Acronyms <acronym title="Kangaroo Flat Secondary College">KFSC</acronym> Using colour Multimedia Authoring

  5. Usability Accessibility • Audio and Video • Web Captioning What are captions? They should be: Synchronized Equivalent Accessible Closed vs. Open captions Audio description http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/media/audiodesc.mp3 Transcripts Multimedia Authoring

  6. Accessibility • Resources: • W3C Web Accessibility Initiative • http://www.w3.org/WAI/ • Adobe Accessibility Resource Centre • http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/ • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines • http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ • WebAIM • http://webaim.org/ • Internet Industry Association • http://www.iia.net.au/index.php/task-forces/38/92-web-accessibility-online-resources.html • Adaptive Technology Resource Centre • http://www.altcexchange.edu.au/adaptive-technology-resource-centre Multimedia Authoring

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